jesse-holden / basicblog

basicblog

Basic Web project with ExpressJS on NodeJS

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Requirements
• Configuration
• Run

Summary

The Web basic starter contains an unopinionated set of files for web serving:

• public/index.html
• public/js/bundle.js
• public/css/default.css

Requirements

Local Development Tools Setup (optional)

• Install the latest NodeJS 6+ LTS version.

Bluemix development tools setup (optional)

1. Install Docker on your machine.
2. Install the Bluemix CLI
3. Download the Bluemix developer tools plugin
4. Go to the directory you downloaded the image to, and install the plugin with:

bx plugin install <name-of-the-dev-plugin>

IBM Bluemix DevOps setup (optional)

IBM Bluemix DevOps services provides toolchains as a set of tool integrations that support development, deployment, and operations tasks inside Bluemix. The "Create Toolchain" button creates a DevOps toolchain and acts as a single-click deploy to Bluemix including provisioning all required services.

*Note you must publish your project to Github for this to work.

Configuration

The project contains Bluemix specific files that are used to deploy the application as part of a Bluemix DevOps flow. The .bluemix directory contains files used to define the Bluemix toolchain and pipeline for your application. The manifest.yml file specifies the name of your application in Bluemix, the timeout value during deployment, and which services to bind to.

Credentials are either taken from the VCAP_SERVICES environment variable if in Bluemix, or from the config file if running locally ./vcap-local.js.

Run

Using Bluemix development CLI

The Bluemix development plugin makes it easy to compile and run your application if you do not have all of the tools installed on your computer yet. Your application will be compiled with Docker containers. To compile and run your app, run:

bx dev run

Your application will be running at http://localhost:8080/.

Native npm modules installed on one architecture will not work on another. The included Docker images are based on the Linux kernel. If you want to run through Docker and locally, you must delete the node_modules/ folder and run bx dev run again.

Using a local development environment

Endpoints

Your application is running at: http://localhost:8080/ in your browser.

• Health endpoint: /appmetrics-dash